Hello and have a nice Saturday. I am here with some of the best reading processes from the Guardian this week.
Make your choice and get in – maybe still try to unpack Trump’s comments about the conversion of the Gaza Strip into the “Riviera of the Middle East”, or you may be more in the mood to read about the meteorite landed a Cotswolds-Sackgasse.
Maybe you just want to leave everything behind and have an egg cooked for 32 minutes. I will not judge.
1. “Was Presley a telepathic demigod who could heal the sick and change the weather?”
The BetterIDGE law of the headlines suggests that a heading that ends in a question mark can be answered: “No”. This does not make this piece less fun through a “lively new book” about the occult Elvis.
What do you mean by the ‘occult Elvis’? Apparently the King of Rock’n’roll claimed to be a faith from Jupiter ninth moon. The author of the book, Miguel Conner, decided to chase everything after an Ayahuasca ceremony. “My thesis is that he was the greatest magician in western civilization,” he says. Make what you want.
How long will it take to read: Four minutes.
2. “It is easy to confuse ignorance with brilliance.”
Simon Tisdall writes about Donald Trump’s “Gaza Power-Trip” this week and does not hold back. “Trump’s incoherent hike is not the groundbreaking thinking, like Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, let alone a plan,” wrote the commentator for the observer’s foreign affairs.
“The fundamentalist goal, which lurks under its bogus lying, is an enlarged and consolidated Israel, which is occupied by a bizarre form of US lease, all from Gaza stripes and possibly in West Bank, by a bizarre form of US lend lease . It means death for the hopes of a Palestinian state … [and] smells of ethnic cleaning. “
How long will it take to read: Less than three minutes.
Further reading: There are many news, analyzes and comments on developments in relation to Trump’s statements and a great piece about the amazing power of Elon Musk. However, think primarily about what happens on site in the Gaza is a statement by a humanitarian surgeon.
3. ‘I help others to recognize gender -specific violence. Then my friend had the same conversation with me. ‘
As a clinical psychologist in Melbourne, Bianca Denny is used to talking about taboo topics-to be accepted that this discussions about gender violence goes. She understands how important it is to keep the conversation on personal experiences going.
“Personally and professionally, I understand the frustration when a person signals their intention to leave a relationship or change behavior, and then do not do so. This can be demoralizing for those who initiated these difficult conversations or offered other support, ”she wrote.
The big one, she says, is that several attempts to “leave no failures, but are the possibilities to strengthen determination, to develop coping strategies and to build capacities”.
“To endure an abusive relationship is comparable to being captured in a rip. It is impossible that the needy swimmer navigate into the safe water that is so easily discovered by the coast. “
How long will it take to read: A few minutes.
Further reading: Our new series with broken justice examines how the criminal justice system for victims of sexual violence provide bad results and often steams it again. Hard problems – but these stories form a thoughtful path to think about them.
4. ‘Before Ozempic we had amphetamines. But it is always the same violence ‘
The Guardian columnist Zoe Williams talked to the only female director who was nominated at this year’s Oscars Coralie Fargeat – for the very shiny, very cruel film the substance. I dipped under my jumper, where I spent most of the film with delightfully screeching, I did not allow the cinema to ensure how deep her message about female beauty was really.
But I cannot deny your points that “every culture has its own standard for what is valued. But it is always the same violence.
“And it’s a trap,” says Fargeeat. “The whole world [would need] To change to make them. I really think it’s a fight that you can’t win alone. “
How long will it take to read: Four minutes.
Further reading: Apparently the science finds: “Women can also have a dark strip”. Catherine de ‘Medici would have something to say. And Margaret Thatcher. Nevertheless, this view of the female narcissism is interesting, especially if you have only spent several hours to watch Margaret Qualley falls into the Demi Moore spine.
5. “It came from space”
Well – it is a meteor. But Helen Gordons Lonas read about the space organizer, which has changed an English market city, is full of fascinating and much less obvious information.
For example: meteors can go 15 -fold of the speed of a rifle ball. And “fresh” meteors to use the collector’s usage are “particularly valued”, because as soon as they enter the earth’s atmosphere, they change dramatically.
When this fireball was met in 2021, scientists ran to find him – and represented the public.
Remarkable quote: “If you find something that could be a meteorite, take a photo of it in situ. Draw up the place; Only go around with gloves; Place it in a sealable plastic bag or an aluminum film. Mail us! “
How long will it take to read: Eight and a half minutes.
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